…and all done

Welcome to the new Mssv! The most obvious change is that the design is different (easier to read, I hope) and that all three weblogs have now been merged together. I’m glad I tried the four-year long experiment of three different weblogs, but ultimately it didn’t work due to the fact that I only have a finite amount of spare time and I wasn’t updating the main article as often as I wanted to. I’m optimistic that this simpler structure will see me writing much more.

There are a few other nice bits and pieces on the weblog, mainly to do with Search (it exists now) and Comments. On the old weblog, comments were a complete pain both for reader to post and me to moderate, but things should be much easier now. There’s also a Recent Comment box on the sidebar to the right. Unfortunately, I’ve still lost a fair number of comments from the old weblog.

Basically, what happened is that I ran out of space on my webhost, and as a result the comments database file became corrupted. This is no excuse for Movable Type, which continued to act oddly after everything had been fixed, and so I resolved to finally switch over to WordPress, a weblog engine that is under much more active development and is markedly more pleasant to use (although not perfect).

6 Replies to “…and all done”

After learning a bit of SPARQL, I’ve been overcome by a desire to write my own weblog engine again. I’d like to see if I can write a weblog system with categories and comments in under a hundred lines of code!

The progress tracker plugin is Progressfly, available here. I don’t mind the fact you update less often. One thing I totally love is that your feed is merged… I used to have three feeds for your site and I prefer having the option of subscribing just to one.

Glad you enjoyed the musings on meeting Vinge. He’s a hell of a guy, Vernor is.

It’s a combination of the WordPress Widget plugin and Flickr’s badge generator (http://www.flickr.com/badge_new.gne). There are a few Flickr widgets for WordPress floating around the net, but none are particularly good, and I believe Flickr’s own one is the only that will choose random photos.

I customised the HTML of the badge to remove various bits and pieces – feel free to lift the code!